beni

Stalks in the shadows of this section of the forum. (Not trying to be rude, I just see you mainly here is all)

It would be called -k∆-ism, and my followers would build monuments for me while I live and bury me inside a pyramid when I die. Bow and obey ye infidels!
Would you have the guts to go into an abandoned house or any other such structure?

UK, Essex (not one to pinpoint where exactly I'm from usually). I HATE telling people where I'm from anywhere outside this location because I fear others will only know about TOWIE which greatly embarrasses me. I mean, we're not ALL that dumb. But yeah, the majority of us are. And when I say I was born in London, no one believes me. xD
Going back through the thread, I just noticed only a couple who also live in England. Quite low, but anyway, hey there neighbour.

UK, Essex (not one to pinpoint where exactly I'm from usually). I HATE telling people where I'm from anywhere outside this location because I fear others will only know about TOWIE which greatly embarrasses me. I mean, we're not ALL that dumb. But yeah, the majority of us are. And when I say I was born in London, no one believes me. xD
Going back through the thread, I just noticed only a couple who also live in England. Quite low, but anyway, hey there neighbour.

This thread needs more love. And kyary's beautiful face. <3
 

 
Who else thought the stick man's hands were a moustache?
 

 

 
Other contribution, this whole thread of Jrock memes for your entertainment.
 
And a GIF, just because, it's true in my case.

 
(I'm sorry these aren't exactly the right memes ><)

Lovely thread to help boost up the votes for new pics. Went through and added +1 vote to pics which weren't on the front page. Hope it helps somehow. 
I was going to put up one of my own choice but.. seeing as the Japanese band shares one with an English band, I feel those listeners of the latter one'll get mad if it's changed, even though the 'similar artists' is Japanese related. xD Shared pages confuse me.

I'm working at a school and today, on "my watch" of course, one of the kids thought it would be wise to pee in a drawer. I don't know this kid too well, though, so I told someone who know him and it got dealt with.
 
 
I had to look over two rooms where some kida were playing with lego, and as I was about to check on the kids in the small room one of the kids came out and started talking to me:
 
Him: Bear, he just peed in the drawer
Me: no, he didn't
Him: yes, he did
Me: are you sure?
Him: yes, it's in this drawer
Me: what? You sure? This one *points*
Him: yes
Me: heh, ok. let me see. *opens the drawer* reaction:

 
 
 
 
Lovely.

Since we had a good turn out last Sunday, we'll try this again this Sunday - same time. @ 8PM - 10PM UTC.
If anyone has any concerns about the timing, please let me know!

Welcome, and hooray for ender-ender! Pleasure to meet you too. Awesome to see another new face, I do hope you enjoy your tme here. Feel free to join in the chat whenever you'd like. downy are very good, awesome you became interested in looking into more of the Japanese music scene. Muxu are new to me so thanks for mentioning them, sounds cool. Take care now, and have fun.

The typical shounen end right? Was supporting Akatsuki because they were my favourites though hehehe.

L'Arc~en~Ciel, Plastic Tree, and yazzmad... can't go through a day without 'em.

I thought this might be a helpful thread for some people. The idea of this thread is exactly what the title says. Post last.fm pics here that you'd like voted up (or down) and some kind soul(s) will be sure to aid you!
 
 
I'd like very much for the following pics to be voted up, if some of you could spare a moment! (click the pictures)  Thanks in advance!
 

 

 

 

Alien
Pretty unusual when I rewatch a movie but after hearing about the death of the original alien concept artist, I felt the need to watch the movie again after watching the trailer. And my god is it legendary. Seriously, what a gem. About a spaceship crew attempting to escape from the extraterrestrial creature which, literally, just wants to breed with us humans. xD I wasn't scared while watching it, but it's just so creepy and eerie and executed so brilliantly I was mesmerised from the start to end. I'm not all up for any sexual undertones but damn was H.R. Giger one freaky alien lover. Anywho, If you haven't watched it already, what are you doing? GO NOW!

7 years ago a buddy told me about a Japanese Post Rock band named downy. I was thoroughly impressed. It got me interested in Japanese music but I didn't yet start exploring. Mostly because I wasn't sure where to start.
 
A few months ago I found a Progressive House producer named Aran by accident. This was the first time I had heard House music come from that side of the world and if Aran was a reflection of House music in Japan then I definitely wanted to hear more.
 
Finally, I was stalking ender-ender's Last.fm the other day when I investigated a band called Told. This is the first time I've heard an Indie Rock band from Japan and they were good enough to make me realize that I couldn't ignore music from this country anymore. Ender-ender invited me to this forum to make some friends and learn about the music that's been eluding me for almost a decade.
 
I also want to mention a band called Muxu from Malaysia that was recommended to me along with downy. They made some the most chill, ambient music I've ever heard.
 
So that's my small history with music from Japan. It's a pleasure to meet you guys and I look forward to settling in here.

They NEED an album out now! That tracklist is looking damn juicy, I'm praying for an album tracklist next now. Wasn't expecting to be hyped so much to a newly listened to band. Want moar. Tenten, damn you.

Didn't see this around here, so thought of making one:
 
Just like in the western music scene, Japanese/Asian artists have their own "definitive", so called "THE" Pvs. Most of them are given that status due to various factors, including their excessive shock factor or some of the most memorable/unique ways of expressing their message visually. 
 
That being said - what are "THE" pvs by your favorite bands/artists that you consider to be "iconic" or "definitive"? Why does it work/what does make your choice "Iconic"?
Before someone goes asking - yes, you can choose other PVs from already mentioned bands, just as long as you explain your picks properly and don't do multi-post spams.
 
E.g. my choices:
 
Dir en grey - Obscure

 
Why it works: As far as I'm concerned, this is what made DEG's "overshooting" shock factor one of their staple characteristics: hideous, absurd mix of "mild" gore, porn, vomit and other randomness is quite strong enough to burn itself into your head. Internet surfing enthusiasts in '03 couldn't really expect themselves to stumble upon something that literally "screams" the message of said music - and the message is anything but family-friendly . I am not saying that DEG pioneered the making of shock value-based PVs, but they surely gave it enough exposure and interest afterwards (you can already pinpoint the consequences)...
 
Sheena Ringo - Honnou
http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/Sheena-Ringo---Honnou/7e50f819e6ea8bbf7f107fda3d49f4f8 (the PV is VEVOed so you better watch it through jps.tv - no account needed!)
 
Why it works: What you'd normally consider to be quite harmless happens to be quite freaky and kinky in one way or another. This is how I, and perhaps many other innocent fans at that time, interpreted Shiina's most popular PV ever - "Honnou". I like how musical accompaniment really fits the flow of PV: starting out as somewhat laid-back, albeit with some scary undertones (blood bags, Shiina breaking glass panes, some girl-on-girl action...) - and ending up on almost fierce, but still lovely tone (Shiina showcasing her true "I don't care - I'm strong and independent!"-kind of image in the end). Even with such simplistic ideas like glass breaking, you can come up with something what is being defined as the "PV with many meanings". The hell, if you don't take my word for it - let this be a good reminder!

Wow, foundation works wonders.

@benibana: hello, thank you very much for the welcome hehe that's nice to hear that it made you laugh xD and I will definitely enjoy it here, don't worry about this c: hehe yea I can play instruments, but I don't know if I can play them well or not xP but thank you very much, I hope so too but at least I already found someone who I can be in a band with ^~^ yea, I sometimes do that xD then I will do that, and like I said, I will enjoy it here
 
@eiheartx: thank you very much for the welcome =D

He still has /some/ makeup on but like compared to this:

 
its nothing lol
 
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW HOT HE IS THO UNF

I'm Staci and ender-ender convinced me to join. I was on here forever ago but bailed and forgot my old un. 

I'm a wannabe professional photographer getting ready to go back to school to finish a Japanese associate degree(that I started working on in 2007 oops) with the hope to go on for a bachelors and masters in anthropology cause it's just money, right? -silently cries forever- I enjoy anime and manga(ask to know, too many to list). TV shows about warrior princesses, clones, women in prison and WWI era England upperclass. Movies about wizards and dinosaurs are also high up on my list. Books of all kinds. Also enjoy video games with fighters, RPGs and pokémon being my faves. I am a music junkie and listen to just about everything from 1920s big band music to screamy angry metal. I got into the Japanese music scene what feels like eons ago with Ayumi Hamasaki which somehow turned into Dir en grey, Malice Mizer etc etc etc. I will forever be bitter about DELUHI disbanding. For all eternity. It was the worst April Fool's non-joke since a girl told me she got me Spice Girls concert tickets in elementary school.

My list of faves is vast so here's a clip of the Japanese variety:
DELUHI 
NAINE
exist trace
CROSSFAITH (assholes... all of them adorable assholes..)
Kaya/Hora/Schwarz Stein
DANGER GANG
Koda Kumi (non-vk/non-rock don't care try to fight me)
girugamesh
Aural Vampire
LOST ASH
Dir en grey
-OZ-
http://last.fm/user/burstmyemotion

I have a really bad habit of typing too much so if I do please just tell me to shut up. ;;

I previewed this post like 100 times to make sure it wasn't horrible but it's still horrible.

well, hello, I'm new here to this forum, and now I'm gonna introduce myself in this topic o:
 
I have a lot of names, so call me how you want to call me ^.^ I'm turning 18 this december and I am half german, half russian and live in germany ^^" I had my first contact with music when I was 3, there was this Bon Jovi guy with his It's My Life, and then I got addicted to rock and metal 0= because of this, I started playing guitar at the age of 7 ^~^ I'm playing the acoustic and the electric guitar, and I also want to play in a band one day =o I already found another amazing person who wants to play in a band with me, so we are 2 guitarists now I started writing instrumentals more than 3 years ago, and I started writing lyrics for these almost a half year ago c: I post these lyrics in my JPopAsia-acc entitled Hazukikun if you want to read em
 
my first contact with visual kei was in january 2010 when I had this stupid german pink facebook entitled SchülerVZ xD there was a group called the GazettE best band ever.. I googled the GazettE, listened to Filth In The Beauty.... fell in love with japanese rock/metal music <3 since then, I'm a fan of more than 90 japanese bands o= some of my favorites are DEATHGAZE, Dir En Grey, D'espairsRay, the GazettE, ScReW, MUCC, Diaura, (old) Girugamesh, GHOSE, ALSDEAD... and of course my alltime favorite band: lynch. *.* <3 <3 <3
 
and now I joined this page because well... I saw some bad reviews about lynch. so I can fangirl you all to death that lynch. is the best band ever D:< xDDD oh yea I often tend to do bad jokes well I also joined because I hope to meet some new friends with the same interests as me ^~^ ok now I don't know what to write anymore... thank you very much for reading greetings,
 
Me

^ Basically Kiwamu is known to be an immature asshole. There were reports of him smashing people's cameras at concerts (because "no photo" policy), throwing temper tantrums at concert staff (this also includes literally throwing a plastic chair at an innocent staff member) and generally being a dickhead (like advising his fans to buy merchandise instead of bringing him gifts cuz he knows they got the money if they can afford gifts). xD
 
He runs two interjoining record labels so this makes him arch-dickhead-deluxe as well. Best story is when GPK (from GPKism) shared a photo on Myspace where Kiwamu was featured with his not too flattering facial expression... Kiwamu forced GPK to apologize, take it down and ultimately disable his access to his own profile for a while, lol.
 
I guess he likes to think his band BLOOD is hot shit but in reality they're rly just a sub-par goth kei group (with a handful of nice songs no less, tho).

Multiple choice poll. Who's your favorite J-rock "ojisan"?
 


 
 
 
 
If you have any suggestions for the Poll of the Week, just pm me with the poll question and the possible choices!